Tamara Bidone

Post Doctoral Scholar

Department of Chemistry

University of Chicago

tamarabidone_at_uchicago.edu

Tamara received her PhD in biomedical engineering in 2013 from the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy. While a graduate student, Tamara joined the Kamm’s lab at MIT and Aznar’s lab at the University of Zaragoza, and worked on a computational model of actomyosin self-organization. After graduation, Tamara joined Vavylonis’ group in Lehigh University to work on a model of contractile ring assembly in collaboration with experimental groups (D. Zhang, Temasek Life Science Laboratory in Singapore, and J.Q. Wu, Ohio State University). While at Lehigh University, Tamara was instructor of the course of Computational Physics. She subsequently joined Voth’s group at the University of Chicago in 2016, to work on a model of focal adhesions.

Research Interests

My research interests are in the field of multiscale simulations of biological assemblies, where the current focus is on coupling molecular dynamics with coarse graining approaches and Brownian Dynamics. While most of my previous experience is in developing Brownian Dynamics algorithms to study actomyosin dynamics and build up of tension in contractile disordered networks, in Voth’s group I am developing a multi scale computational framework to study focal adhesions. Specifically, I am parametrizing a Brownian Dynamics model based on kinetics information from the molecular and coarse grain dynamics.